Conference Session

Engineering Ethics - Courses and Curricula

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seamus Freyne, Manhattan College; Micah Hale, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

ethical situations on BlackBoard and ask students to comment. I understand the online discussions can become quiet lengthy.Many respondents said the amount of time spent on ethics in these courses varies. The faculty is encouraged to spend some time on professionalism and ethics in every civil engineering course. Some do, but some do not. The extent to which ethics is taught in courses that I do not teach, I am not sure. Most of the departments that do not have a standalone course cover ethics in the design courses, with maybe a little taught in the introduction courses. How much time is spent on ethics depends on who is teaching the course; the faculty has a great deal of freedom in